Yield and fibre quality of cotton cultivars as affected by the build-up of sodium in the soils with sustained sodic irrigations under semi-arid conditions

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-9

  Choudhary, O P ^a   Josan, A S ^a   Bajwa, M S ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Boll number; Boll weight; Cotton cultivars; ESP; Fibre quality; Seed cotton yield

Indexed keywords

COTTON; IRRIGATION; SEMIARID REGION; SODIUM; YIELD RESPONSE;

EID: 0035797152     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3774(00)00130-X     Document Type: Article

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